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ucon64 + super wild card = win!

 

I just finished watching 'Chinatown'. Pretty awesome movie. They just don't make movies like they used to. Sure, there's pretty good movies today. But time will tell how many of the "good" movies of today will be classics tomorrow.

 

Does Rep actually do anything?

 

Oh, you have no idea.... :110:


But seriously, REP on ASSEMbler doesn't really mean much. On other forums, it's quite the opposite. I know months ago I left WolverineDK negative rep. :fresh:

 

ok. I just finished my last test of my entire academic career and am graduating from college tomorrow, so this is fresh on my mind while i'm reflecting back on the last 4 years...

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WHY? WHY WHY WHY do black people get their own *everything* with regards to fraternities, clubs, and scholarships? They are allowed to deny your membership to their fraternity SOLELY based on race. You can be denied a scholarship you are worthy of SOLELY because of your race.

last time I checked, wasn't that called "racism"?

Aside from the fact that its fucking gay that its socially acceptable for them to faction off like that, doesn't it only further the idea that they're different? Don't we want everyone to be equal? or do we only want to be equal when its convenient for us? (thats called 'having your cake and eating it too')

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Strange world, isn't it?

 

I think its because the world is full of bigots who discriminate against others because meaningless things such as sexual preferences, race, and sex. So you know to get abit of a helping hand they can do that kind of thing.

Dont you think people who do that are a bunch of fucking idiots?

 

I'm in my senior year of college myself, next week is finals week for me, and while I haven't taken my last test ever I did finish and present a project for my Compiler Design class today. For the project I had to write a compiler for a programming language (that I had to come up with as well) that would run "classical operating system" problems and could deal with issues of concurrency in said problems (and by that I mean I had to implement semaphores into the language so that race conditions would not occur).

If none of that made any sense, don't worry Just know that it was my biggie this semester (worse than any test I'm going to have) and I'm glad that it is finally over :dance:

 

Are you trying to fill in WDKs spot?:lol:

 

I see that you bolded the word gay. I don't know where Berretta is from but around my area people use the word gay all the time. i use it all the time. it's just another word for stupid or dumb. obviously i refrain from using it here because people will get offended. but i don't think Berretta was actually trying to offend anyone by using the word gay.

 

So-called "race" is one of the genetic adaptations to environmental conditions, just as you get cats of every color. There's natural benefits in each genetic design as well as flaws, and that's a good thing - there's no single super-human race, superman's excluded.

Hence, race can be a relevant factor in some matters, for example when making a skin product for darker individuals (Indians, Africans, etc), justified by their different needs, or an irrelevant factor when race is in it self a criterion to just limit someone's freedom.

however to me, most people react too much to the subject of racial difference, i don't care either way - i m not racist, or anti-racist, because i just can't see what seems to be the problem. You can choose to make fun or hate a number of features in every person, and race is just one of them, I prefer discriminating assholes.

 

No ofcourse he wasnt trying to offend anyone. However if he was serious about not wanting people to "faction off" then he wouldnt of used a word that has the potential to offend others.

 

We're all horrible people in the end!

 

In my experience, gay people are generally not offended by the word gay. The gay people I know (and for that matter, anyone to lives a so called "alternative" lifestyle) have extremely thick skin. It may have been a poor choice of words on my part, but it doesn't change my original point.

Why is it ok to elect to advertise that you're different only when it is beneficial? We can all agree that having black-only restrooms, water fountains, bus seats, etc is wrong. But WHY is it wrong? Is it because we are treating them POORLY because of something beyond their control? How is this different than telling a white person that they are not elegible for a scholarship they qualify for simply because of their race? Wheres the "United Caucasian College Fund"? What channel is "White Entertainment Television"? I just don't get why its alright to have black-only things now, but the moment you raise the point that theres no white-only things of the same capacity, then you're automatically racist.

fact: treating someone poorly because of their race is called racism.
what im getting at: rewarding someone because of their race is ALSO racism, but is now socially acceptable.

SOMEONE has to understand what I'm saying. Think objectively about it without trying to label me as something and pointing a finger in my direction.

Funny you should say something like this, as it only proves my point more. So you are saying that because I am not X, that word X is now barred from my vocabulary? Gay people call things gay (if you don't think so, you're kidding yourself). Black people call other black people N-words. I'm white, yet people are allowed to call me white/cracker/honky/etc and no one says anything about that, yet it does not offend me.

By calling me out for using such a word, you are inadvertently supporting such a double standard.

 

I understand where your coming from, but trying to make others understand this in a forum full of people where egos are too big for the real world to give a shit is just an epic failure waiting to happen.

People here act as if they are cultured and intellectual, but they just cry home to Assembler if they feel like someone hurt their feelings. Happens too much here. Hence, almost every month Assembler has to remind us all to be respectful, etc. as if he's our mother!

 

and this is actually one of the more civilized forums i attend :lol:

 

This is exactly why there is such a double standard. Its the old evasive conversation switcheroo that stifles independent thinking.

When I bring up something like this, the first thing that happens is that someone will try to poke a hole in my logical argument by bringing up a quasi-tangential point that attempts to make me look like a bigot, and make themself look like a champion of "the little guy" for the sole purpose of making themselves look like the bigger man. All this does is stop the discussion of my point, and focus on something else.

 

I gotta give beretta a hand. He raises an excellent point, and you can't really say he doesn't.

That seems to be what everyone on the internet does!

 

You just dont get it do you. You cant make a point saying we shouldn't use "positive discrimination" while using negative discrimination. Im sure you mean no harm but it doesn't change the fact you are associating "gay" with a negative meaning. Just because its socialy acceptable doesnt mean its right does it? I think thats what your argument is about?

By your logic of its ok because gay people say it then i would like you to go out to your local school and say "Hello Nigger" to all the black people you see or replace the word "gay" whenever you use it for "jew". Im sure they all have thick skin and some use it amongst them selfs but it doesnt stop it from having a negative meaning.

Until all negative discrimination stops then there shall always be positive discrimination and even then it wont go away.

No its a very interesting point to talk about if only it wasnt with put that way. As someone was saying "What happened to being the best person for the job" and not the one minority tick box that was missing. However to get into a discussion about how they discriminate against you for being white while you descriminate against someone is the clear reason as to why "Positive Descrimination" exists. Because people dont think about what they say and do to others.

 

Again, you are steering away from my initial point by trying to act like a PC champion for a group you probably aren't even a part of. Using a word like that does not connote your entire view of an entire people. By your logic, all homosexuals hate gay people, and all black people hate niggers, SOLELY based on the fact that they use such language.

It has a negative meaning because people like you keep reinforcing the fact that it does. I would argue that I am the one attempting to end discrimination by trivializing the meaning of such words. Theyre just words. If X can use word X in a non-derogatory way torward an individual, and I can not because I am not X, that is X-ist.

Why do white people never get called crackers and honkys anymore? Because those words are MEANINGLESS. They are jokes. I would laugh at someone who called me that to my face, even if they meant it with all the hatred and ire they could muster. It has been unconsciously accepted by the vast majority of white people as having no power as a slur. When a word's meaning is destroyed, it cannot be offensive.